Enabling altnamespace and IMAP doesn't look different. Should it?

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 1 17:39:59 EDT 2014


If only all problems were so easy to fix!


On Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 02:29 PM, Eric K Germann wrote:
> Genius!


> That was it. Thanks. Fixed my sieve issue too!


> EKG


>


> On 2014-11-01 16:11, Bron Gondwana wrote:


>> Is your username in 'admins' in imapd.conf? Admin users are
>> really special, and we don't recommend using them for real users
>> who get email.
>>
>> Bron.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Eric K Germann wrote:
>>> I recently upgraded my server from 2.2 to the
>>> cyrus-imapd-2.4.17-caldav-beta10 release built from source.


>>> One of the goals is to share "Notes" between various iDevices and
>>> this requires a "Notes" folder at the root level, necessitating
>>> "altnamespace=yes"


>>> I had to convert my sieve scripts over (deleting INBOX. as it was
>>> throwing errors), so I know at least part of the installation is
>>> using the altnamespace.


>>> What got me looking is when I use the managesieve plugin to
>>> Roundcube, it creates new rules (that don't work) with folder names
>>> of "INBOX.xxx". I dug around and nowhere in their source is there a
>>> namespace or root setting, so I went back to the IMAP protocol.


>>> With "altnamespace:yes", when I login and list folders, I get:


>>> a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA
>>> MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT
>>> CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY CATENATE CONDSTORE ESEARCH SORT
>>> SORT=MODSEQ SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES
>>> ANNOTATEMORE LIST-EXTENDED WITHIN QRESYNC SCAN XLIST X-REPLICATION
>>> URLAUTH URLAUTH=BINARY LOGINDISABLED COMPRESS=DEFLATE IDLE] User
>>> logged in >


>>> a2 list "" *
>>> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." INBOX
>>> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.0 Junk - Missed"
>>> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.0 Junk - Wrong"

>>> NAMESPACE is also identical between them.


>>> * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("" "."))


>>> Ditto for when I start it with altnamespace set to no.


>>> From other examples on Google, it would seem "INBOX." shouldn't be
>>> there with it enabled.


>>> That would explain why Roundcube generates the sieve rules with
>>> INBOX in the folder names.


>>> What am I missing? Did I forget to do something after I turned
>>> it on?


>>> Really confused.


>>> Thanks for any assistance!


>>> EKG


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